TL;DR: The faith-based end of the Philippine international school market is unusually transparent about money, at least at the top. Faith Academy in Cainta publishes a full dollar schedule, USD 16,050 to USD 18,425 a year plus facility fees, with boarding at USD 6,740 and explicit missionary discount criteria. Faith International Academy in Davao publishes pesos, PHP 646,000 to PHP 753,100 for SY 2026-2027. Brent, Episcopal since 1909, publishes a full dollar-plus-peso schedule. Everest Academy Manila, Catholic and Regnum Christi, publishes PHP 384,000 to PHP 616,000 plus a capital development fee. Below that tier, almost nobody publishes anything. Five of the twelve ACS WASC-accredited schools in the Philippines are categorised as religious schools.
What "faith-based" changes in practice
For most families the religious label is not the deciding factor. What it changes is four concrete things, and all four are worth asking about before you tour a campus.
Who gets a discount. This is the single largest financial variable in the sector. A missionary family paying discounted rates at Faith Academy and a corporate family paying full rates at Faith Academy are looking at completely different numbers for the same classroom. If you qualify, the sticker price is nearly irrelevant. If you do not, it is the whole story.
Whether boarding exists. Mission-serving schools board, because their historic role was educating children whose parents work in provinces without secondary schooling. Faith Academy runs a boarding programme with its own registration fee and guardianship paperwork. Almost no secular international school in the country does.
What the school asks of the family. Some schools ask parents to affirm a statement of faith. Others ask nothing and simply teach religion as a subject. Grace Christian College in Quezon City puts its Statement of Faith on its homepage. Hope Christian High School in Manila describes itself as non-sectarian and church-related. Those are meaningfully different postures.
Where the curriculum comes from. A school founded to serve American and Australian mission agencies usually runs a foreign curriculum. A Catholic school founded to serve Filipino families runs DepEd.
The comparison table
| School | Location | Affiliation | Curriculum | Published annual fee | Verified accreditation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faith Academy | Cainta, Rizal | Interdenominational evangelical, missionary-serving | US-style K-12, boarding available | USD 3,080 to USD 18,425 plus facility fees | ACS WASC directory, religious school |
| Faith International Academy | Davao City | Evangelical, missionary-serving | K-12 | PHP 646,000 to PHP 753,100, SY 2026-2027 | ACS WASC directory, religious school |
| Brent International School Manila | Biñan, Laguna | Episcopal | American with IB Diploma | USD 3,584 + PHP 164,120 to USD 9,680 + PHP 444,496 | ACS WASC directory, religious school |
| Brent International School Baguio | Baguio City | Episcopal | American with IB Diploma | Not published on the Baguio site | ACS WASC directory, religious school |
| Brent International School Subic | Subic Bay Freeport | Episcopal | American with IB Diploma | Not published on the Subic site | ACS WASC directory, religious school |
| Everest Academy Manila | Bonifacio Global City, Taguig | Catholic, Regnum Christi | K-12 | PHP 384,000 to PHP 616,000 plus capital development fee | Cognia registry, as Everest International Academy |
| Hope Christian High School | Manila | Non-sectarian, church-related | IB PYP, MYP and DP | Not published | IB programmes per own site, PYP from 2020 |
| Grace Christian College | Quezon City | Evangelical, Statement of Faith | Preschool to college | Not published | ACSCU-ACI, Level III elementary and JHS |
| PAREF Woodrose (girls) | Ayala Alabang, Muntinlupa | Catholic | DepEd K-12 with SHS strands | Not published | DepEd |
| PAREF Southridge (boys) | Cupang, Muntinlupa | Catholic | DepEd K-12 | Not published | DepEd |
| Living Stone International School | Angeles City, Pampanga | Christian | DepEd K-12 | Not published | DepEd |
Faith Academy, Cainta
Faith Academy is on Penny Lane Street, Valley Golf Subdivision, San Juan, Cainta, Rizal, on the eastern edge of Metro Manila. Its stated mission is forming Christlike lifelong learners through education especially for the children of missionaries. It appears in the live ACS WASC directory as an accredited religious comprehensive school with one additional campus.
It publishes its whole fee structure in US dollars, which is unusual and useful:
| Division | Annual tuition | Annual facility and technology fee |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | USD 3,080 | USD 1,065 |
| Elementary, K-5 | USD 16,050 | USD 1,620 |
| Middle School, 6-8 | USD 17,275 | USD 1,620 |
| High School, 9-12 | USD 18,425 | USD 1,600 |
Application fees are tiered by when you apply, running USD 150 for the January-to-mid-February window up to USD 300 after mid-May, each with its own testing deadline, all non-refundable. Accepted students pay a USD 300 seat deposit credited to tuition. Seven-day boarding is USD 6,740, with a USD 100 boarding registration fee for new students and boarding facility fees set at 75 per cent of the academic facility fee.
The discount structure is the part to read twice. Faith Academy defines a missionary in three parts: someone who has left their home culture, who has been commissioned by an evangelical sending organisation whose purpose is proclaiming and demonstrating the Gospel, and whose household's primary income is donations channelled through that organisation. Separately, children of a full-time evangelical Christian ministry worker serving within their home culture, and children of a full-time evangelical seminary student, may qualify where financial need is demonstrated. Financial assistance goes through the Business Office and must be reapplied for every school year.
At roughly PHP 62 to the dollar in August 2026, full-rate High School tuition plus the facility fee is about PHP 1.24 million a year. Discounted, it is a different school entirely. Our Faith Academy guide goes deeper on boarding and the application timeline.
Faith International Academy, Davao
Faith International Academy is at 7 Jade Street Extension, Marfori Heights, Davao City. It is separately accredited by ACS WASC as a religious comprehensive school, and it serves the mission and NGO community across Mindanao.
Published tuition for SY 2026-2027:
| Level | Annual tuition |
|---|---|
| Kindergarten | PHP 646,000 |
| Elementary, Grades 1-5 | PHP 676,200 |
| Middle School, Grades 6-8 | PHP 722,300 |
| High School, Grades 9-12 | PHP 753,100 |
Roughly US$10,400 to US$12,100 at August 2026 rates. Two details from the school's own page matter. A capital fee that used to be billed separately has been folded into the tuition rate from SY 2025-2026, so comparisons against older figures will look like a jump that is not really a jump. And the school tells parents to expect increases of 2 to 3 per cent a year in line with the consumer price index, which is a more honest forward statement than most schools make.
Payments run 30 per cent or full payment on 17 August 2026, then nine instalments of 9 per cent to March and a final 7 per cent in April 2027, in pesos or dollars. Discounts are described as generous for families serving full time with evangelical NGOs and mission organisations, set case by case. If Davao is your base, our Davao school directory has verified area records.
Brent International School: Episcopal, and the largest faith-founded network
Brent was founded in Baguio in 1909 and is named after Charles Henry Brent, the first Episcopal Bishop of the Philippines. All three campuses appear in the live ACS WASC directory categorised as religious comprehensive schools: Baguio (PK-12), Manila in Biñan, Laguna (K-12) and Subic in the Subic Bay Freeport (K-12).
In practice Brent behaves like a mainstream international school rather than a confessional one. It runs an American programme with the IB Diploma in the last two years, and its Manila campus publishes the most detailed fee sheet of any faith-founded school in the country, dated 4 March 2026 and covering SY 2026-2027: USD 3,584 plus PHP 164,120 for Nursery through to USD 9,680 plus PHP 444,496 for Grades 9 to 12, plus a USD 1,575 annual capital development fee, a USD 3,000 one-time matriculation fee for new students, a USD 300 application fee and a USD 600 seat reservation. Brent states its board rarely grants discounts, never to new students, and never on the matriculation or capital development fees.
The Baguio and Subic campuses do not publish equivalent schedules on their own sites, so ask each campus directly rather than assuming Manila's rates apply.
Everest Academy Manila: Catholic and Regnum Christi
Everest Academy Manila is at 3846 38th Drive North, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. Its own site describes it as the first Regnum Christi school in Asia and the first Catholic international school in the Philippines, and lists affiliations including Cognia, RC Education, the Japan Council of International Schools, DepEd and the Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines.
The Cognia claim verifies independently. Cognia's own accreditation registry, searched on 29 August 2026, returns only three institutions in the Philippines, and one of them is Everest International Academy in Taguig City, listed under the Semper Altius Network of Schools.
Published annual fees for AY 2026-2027:
| Level | Basic tuition | Capital development fee |
|---|---|---|
| Kinder | PHP 384,000 | PHP 90,000 |
| Grades 1 to 2 | PHP 508,000 | PHP 120,000 |
| Grades 3 to 5 | PHP 546,000 | PHP 120,000 |
| Grades 6 to 8 | PHP 567,000 | PHP 125,000 |
| Grades 9 to 11 | PHP 605,000 | PHP 125,000 |
| Grade 12 | PHP 616,000 | PHP 125,000 |
New students also pay a one-time matriculation fee of PHP 55,000. So a new Grade 6 family pays PHP 747,000 in year one, roughly US$12,050, which is the clearest apples-to-apples number in the Catholic segment.
Hope Christian High School and Grace Christian College
These two are Chinese-Filipino church-founded schools rather than expatriate international schools, and they reach shortlists for families who want a Christian environment without international-school pricing.
Hope Christian High School, 1242 Benavides Street, Manila, founded in 1946, describes itself as a non-stock, non-profit, non-sectarian church-related institution built around academic development, spiritual formation, personal enrichment and social awareness. It runs the IB continuum: the Primary Years Programme accredited in 2020, plus the Middle Years and Diploma Programmes. It publishes no fees, but it does publish grant-in-aid application forms. Its domain is hchs.edu.ph; hopechristian.edu.ph does not resolve.
Grace Christian College, Grace Avenue, Grace Village, Barangay Apolonio Samson, Quezon City, runs preschool through college and puts a Statement of Faith on its own homepage. It reports Level III accreditation for elementary and junior high and Level II for preschool and kindergarten from ACSCU-ACI, a Philippine accrediting body rather than a US one. It publishes no fees.
The Catholic schools of Alabang
PAREF Woodrose (girls, Acacia Avenue, Ayala Alabang) and PAREF Southridge (boys, Hillsborough Alabang, West Service Road, Cupang, Muntinlupa) are the best-known single-sex Catholic schools in south Metro Manila. Both run DepEd K-12, both describe their formation in Catholic and Christian terms on their own sites, and neither publishes a tuition figure anywhere. They are covered in more detail in our Alabang and south Metro Manila guide.
What I could not verify
Being straight about the gaps is part of the answer.
- Harbert Hills Academy Philippines Branch, at Siloam Valley Institute in Don Carlos, appears in the Middle States Association members directory under the Cooperative programme, listed as active and accredited. I could not open a school-published site for it, so I am reporting only what the accreditor's directory shows and nothing about its programme, denomination or fees.
- Several Christian schools on aggregator lists have no working website. Where a domain does not resolve or redirects somewhere unrelated, I have left the school out rather than describe it from memory. If a school you are considering has no live site, treat that as information.
- Living Stone International School in Angeles City is explicitly Christian on its own site, running Pre-Kinder to Senior High School under DepEd. It publishes no fee schedule, and is covered in the Clark and Pampanga guide.
What the fee tables miss
- One-time entry charges. Everest PHP 55,000, Brent USD 3,000. Faith Academy's equivalent is the non-refundable application fee plus a refundable-by-credit seat deposit.
- Facility and capital fees. Faith Academy bills USD 1,600 to USD 1,620 a year on top of tuition. Everest bills PHP 90,000 to PHP 125,000. Brent bills USD 1,575. None of these are optional.
- Boarding. USD 6,740 at Faith Academy for a seven-day place, plus registration and a boarding facility fee.
- Examination entries. IB Diploma sittings are billed at cost at Brent and are extra almost everywhere else that runs the DP.
- The discount you may or may not get. For mission-serving families this is larger than every other line combined, and it is decided after acceptance, by committee, and reapplied for annually.
- Immigration. If your children are foreign nationals, the school place is only half the process. Start with foreign students in basic education.
How to choose
Ask the discount question first, in writing, because it decides which schools are even in your price range. Then check the accreditor's own directory rather than the school's logo wall. Then ask what the exit credential is: an IB Diploma at Brent or Hope, a US-style transcript at Faith Academy, a DepEd Senior High School strand at Living Stone or the PAREF schools. Then ask what the school expects of the family, not just the child.
For the wider market see our overviews of the best international schools in the Philippines, what international schools actually charge, American-curriculum schools and IB schools nationwide. Private versus public schooling here sets out the baseline.
Sources
- Faith Academy - Finances
- Faith International Academy - Tuition & Fees
- ACS WASC Directory of Schools, Philippines country search, 29 August 2026
- Cognia Accreditation Registry, Philippines country search, 29 August 2026
- Middle States Association members directory, Philippines country search, 29 August 2026
- Brent International School Manila, School Fees 2026-2027 and Brent history
- Everest Academy Manila and its Annual Fees for Academic Year 2026-2027
- Hope Christian High School
- Grace Christian College
- PAREF Woodrose School and PAREF Southridge School
- Living Stone International School